Some things I want to say:-Make clear in your reviews that they're for the challenge, a notice somewhere would do the job.-Again: Quality OVER quantity, please don't flood the place, we'll get crazy and shit.-You can always PM me, BH or Gunther

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CHAIRTHROWER wrote:

Metantoine, what does "fam" stand for, "familiar"? Like a witch's familiar?!...Have you been playing d & D again?...

Some things I want to say:-Make clear in your reviews that they're for the challenge, a notice somewhere would do the job.-Again: Quality OVER quantity, please don't flood the place, we'll get crazy and shit.-You can always PM me, BH or Gunther

And just to clarify, we mods actually can edit reviews, so if just start off with a line saying it's for the challenge, we'll take note of it and edit it out so it doesn't stand out on the site.

Stop putting in those silly "for the review challenge" lines. They have never been in use before, and we don't need them now. The system allows the organizer to go through all the daily submissions after they have been approved, and tally the results that way. As it has always been done before that nifty application that is no longer there.

So... should we include that "for review challenge" line in future reviews or not?

On a side note, the Cauldron review I submitted today wasn't written during this period, so even though it's the first review for that particular album it shouldn't be accounted for the challenge's purposes. I had it written for something like two months and was just waiting for the album to be released to cross-post it.

Well, in my opinion, since someone has to go through the recent reviews list anyway, everybody will not remember to put them in no matter what, and we've always counted the submissions that were not explicitly meant as challenge submissions and those will naturally not include the said sentence, those serve no purpose. Add to that the fact that the queue is managed by several mods at the same time, and they are actually just a hassle. They just mean the mod needs to edit the review.

If someone can point out a flaw in my reasoning, I'll admit I'm wrong, of course.

I'll take blame in that I wasn't entirely sure how the stuff would be tallied nowadays since Sean16 and sisters_of_merciless aren't around anymore, so without actually asking anybody who'd worked the old challenges, I just piggybacked on to what was laid down by Metantoine. Lack of communication on that one, I'll take the forty lashes.

Don't denote anything, just review, we'll take care of it. Don't listen to Metantoine or myself, we suck.

I'll take blame in that I wasn't entirely sure how the stuff would be tallied nowadays since Sean16 and sisters_of_merciless aren't around anymore, so without actually asking anybody who'd worked the old challenges, I just piggybacked on to what was laid down by Metantoine. Lack of communication on that one, I'll take the forty lashes.

Don't denote anything, just review, we'll take care of it. Don't listen to Metantoine or myself, we suck.

WTF, I was busy today and I come back to this. I actually liked my idea, but eh, whatever...

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CHAIRTHROWER wrote:

Metantoine, what does "fam" stand for, "familiar"? Like a witch's familiar?!...Have you been playing d & D again?...

I'm getting started a bit later than I normally do and I will probably not be contributing to massive an amount of reviews, but I do have a number of thrash metal albums that I've been meaning to get to that haven't been touched yet on here, so I'll see what I can come up with, already knocked down one for Eliminator.

I'll take blame in that I wasn't entirely sure how the stuff would be tallied nowadays since Sean16 and sisters_of_merciless aren't around anymore, so without actually asking anybody who'd worked the old challenges, I just piggybacked on to what was laid down by Metantoine. Lack of communication on that one, I'll take the forty lashes.

Don't denote anything, just review, we'll take care of it. Don't listen to Metantoine or myself, we suck.

WTF, I was busy today and I come back to this. I actually liked my idea, but eh, whatever...

Well if it's done automatically then that means it's literally just needless busywork for the mods. I assumed we didn't have the same resources as before, Nappy has clarified that indeed we do, ergo making the line superfluous.

Shit, well looks like my first review challenge won't be a very productive one. Turns out this week I have 3 midterms, two essays to do and two books I have to read. I just submitted a review and I probably will only get one a day (possibly even less) from now until Thursday. After that I'm basically going to spend four or five hours a day trying to crank out some reviews.

I have +100 pages of combined reading for school on Wednesday so I'll be off to a late start.

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gomorro wrote:

Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit...

I'm not saying it's a lot of work, but I still can't see what the point is. There's a line, you delete it... and then? Someone still needs to count them manually afterwards, unless you've decided to change the tallying system and only accept reviews written for the purpose. In which case every mod approving anything must keep personal score of the particular reviews and then we'll combine the scores. Which seems like a bad idea, compared to someone actually counting them after the day's reviews are processed.

Having people do something that serves no obvious purpose seems like a redundant thing, that's all.

And another thing... I don't want to piss in anyone's morning cereal, but I need to point out that there are still 63 reviews in the queue from the time before the challenge started. Now, this is the first review challenge using the new V2, and unfortunately the system gives the reviews a time stamp upon approval, not upon submission like the old system did. Unless no-one touches those works for a week, and the same someone makes sure everything is approved exactly when the challenge time ends, the score will be screwed a bit.

And no, I'm not going to be very active during the week. I'll be out on business trips for three late evenings, and I have a construction site to manage 8 meters from where I sit, so I'll have to settle for complaining this time.

No worries Nap. I'll make a count of reviews for yesterday. I'd do it now but I'm exhausted from work and need some shut-eye. In a few hours, the list will be posted. If someone kept or is keeping a list of reviews accepted yesterday that weren't penned before the 8th, please PM it to me.

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Ismetal wrote:

GuntherTheUndying IS THE GAY NUMBER 1, HE DOESNT LIKE TO READ THE TRUTH, SO I THINK THIS PAGE IS FOR GAYS WHO WANTS TO READ MESSAGES LIKE "I LOVE MY BAND", "THEY ARE MY LOVE"